GEORGE ORWELL

GEORGE ORWELL

1. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.

2. some of the main works are:

   • The allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
   • His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
   • In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

3. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

4. Orwell attended Eton College. Because literature was not an accepted subject for boys at the time, Orwell studied the master writers and began to develop his own writing style.

   • At Eton, he came into contact with liberalist and socialist ideals, and it was here that his initial political views were formed.

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